Miles Ingrassia and Iris Karuna are Toronto-based artists who work in a variety of media, including printmaking, collage, text-based works, digital media, and installation. Their current works explore uncertainty and value in interpersonal relationships, existentialism as a tenet to humanism and the post post-modern perspective.

Oh Thank Heaven… explores urban detachment and the compulsion to discover or designate unconventional spaces as sacred. Objects typically associated with variety stores instead mimic recognizably sacred spaces, such as church altars and stained glass windows. This installation emphasizes the incongruity between physically occupied spaces and their metaphysical effects.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Joseph Bauman is a farm boy furniture maker raised in Port Dover, Ontario. Dayna Gedney is a Toronto born designer/maker. JB + DG, an acronym scrawled on their raw material and tools to mark their ownership, has grown to symbolize their playful collaboration and efforts as a design team.

At the heart of each project we aim to use luxurious materials to provide straightforward utility and simple beauty in equal measure.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General of $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Denise St. Marie and Timothy Walker’s practice, found under the moniker Timeanddesire, explores new genre artwork throughout the public realm as well as galleries. Work often aims to highlight the absurd, the psychological, the philosophical and the poetic, while attempting to shift the observer’s viewpoint, if only for a moment.

Innerventions involves a series of subtle interventions found throughout the Gladstone. Signs have been installed in various locations, as well as some text art for the keen observer. Explore the hotel and be sure to pay attention to the fine print.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Michael Poulton is a multi-disciplinary artist, working in the mediums of site-specific installations, found-art assemblages, painting and collage. He is the curator of the Museum of Temporary Art, established in 1987 and located in Victoria Road, Ontario. He is a board member of Artspace, the artist-run-centre, in Peterborough.

The Museum of Temporary Art is a conceptual installation of an imaginary museum, in which found a`rt assemblages and objects are presented together, blurring the line between art and non-art. The purpose of the museum is to both question the nature of art and critique the institutions that preserve and promote it.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Noah Scheinman is an artist and writer with an emerging interest in the relationship between architecture, politics and urban form. Mary Soroka is an art director and illustrator working in print, packaging, photography, web/app design, and time-based media.

Borrowing from the codes of both advertising and architecture, our collaborative project is an investigation into the material reality of images. Ignoring any distinction between the virtual and the real, we instead explore how these forms of meaning work together to construct our physical and psychic spaces.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Parker Kay is a multi-disciplinary artist who has exhibited in Canada and the United States. Kay strives to articulate concepts in the medium best suited to do so, for the most part using video, sculpture, images, and web-based media. Much of Kay’s work responds to an Internet-aware culture, while also exploring notions of embodiment, archival practices, and experience design.

Michael Abel is an artist born in Didsbury, Alberta and is now based out of Toronto, Ontario. Abel’s most recent pursuits are completing his masters in architecture at the University of Toronto and editing a publication under the idea of art and architecture production in the age of network culture, which has created a discourse that he explores in his personal artist practice.

Originally, the architecture of the white cube was designed in a way that would allow the gallery to melt away in order to focus the viewer’s attention towards the artwork in the space. Rather than a void space, the gallery has turned into a space that says “whatever is inside these walls is art,” which gives these architectural features great power. Parker Kay and Michael Abel examine the architectural features of a gallery space and use these materials as the basis for sculptural installation. The walls, the floor, the wood and the drywall of the gallery become the artwork, negating any need for the inclusion of traditional art objects.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General of $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

The New Beat is an interactive agency that creates meaningful and engaging experiences. Menalon is an award winning producer/composer duo who make music for a multitude of mediums including ads, films and installations. Menalon & The New Beat share a studio and find collaboration to be a profound venue for creativity

Menalon + The New Beat collaborate to create an interactive laser harp. Viewers become musicians by engaging with dozens of coloured laser strings. Notes struck by the participant make music from the library of original sounds by Menalon.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Meaghan Hyckiegraduated from OCAD U in 2007. While in London, England from 2008 – 2011 she received a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, won the National Open Art Competition’s Young Artist Prize, and co-curated two group shows about narrative in contemporary drawing. She now lives in Toronto.

Hyckie’s drawings combine an interest in formalism with narrative and representation. Through the installation of a large drawing of clouds suspended from the ceiling, she references the extensive use of cloud imagery in art history and reconstructs it into jarringly contemporary colours and unsettling forms.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Lindsay Montgomery is an artist working across a variety of media including ceramics, video, painting, and puppetry. She holds degrees from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and the University of Minnesota. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and in recent exhibitions at the Gardiner Museum, the Burlington Art Centre, and Craft Ontario.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition Montgomery transforms her room into Third Eye Experimental Figure Theater. Bringing together elements of installation, puppetry, and performance, the piece offers additional moments for interaction throughout CUTMR’15. Viewers will be invited to observe performances intended more as kinetic sculpture then traditional theater, and a variety of local musicians will provide the score for each work.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Corinne Thiessen’s multidisciplinary practice explores social norms, self-regulation and acting out. Michael Trommer uses sound and vibration as vehicles for the investigation of both real and metaphorical space. As a collective, they create uncanny, sensorial fairytales, evoking the dissimulated reality lurking behind the hyperreal of the everyday.

Two figures stand on either side of the bed, facing each other. They rest their heads on plastic cups against the wall, eavesdropping. The room is dark; the occasional beam of light trails across the wall as a car passes, revealing their preoccupation before settling them into darkness again.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm